Copy And Paste

[saltytaco]

Hi, I am trying to build a program that will copy and paste. I want it to use SHIFT+arrowkey to highlight. Basically SHIFT+downarrow to highlight he whole document, then CTRL+X. Then have it ALT+TAB to the next program and CTRL+V to paste. Once I get this basic concept down I will alter it to suite my needs more, but I am really stuck on getting to this point.

Thank you

[saltytaco]

Okay great, CTRL+A would work nice, heh I never knew of that :/. How do I make it so that AutoIt will do that command? would it be Send ('CTRL+A');? I'm sorry but I am trying to learn alot of this now, and not sure if I'm doing it right.

[scriptkitty]

Ok, this should start you off on the right foot.

I put it in a function to let you learn these wonderful time savers.

hotkeyset("{pause}","dosomething"); pause key starts it like a hot key
While 1
    sleep(10)
Wend
    
Func DoSomething()
    send("^a") ; ^ is control so ^a is ctrl+a
    send("^x")
    send("!{tab}"); ! is ALT, so !{tab} is Alt+Tab key
    send("^v")
EndFunc

or if you really wanted to use down arrow select

hotkeyset("{pause}","dosomething")
While 1
    sleep(10)
Wend
    
Func DoSomething()
    send("{shiftDOWN}")
Send("{down 50}")
    send("{shiftUP}")
    send("^x")
    send("!{tab}")
    send("^v")
exit; if you want it to end after one test, if not, remove this line
EndFunc

Edited March 26, 2004 by scriptkitty

[scriptkitty]

the whole thing could be put in one line, but I thought you might like it broken down into smaller bites.

send("^a^x!{tab}^v")

[saltytaco]

Oh wow, thank you so much, I am going to use this and run with it. If I have nay more questions I will let you know. Thanks!